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I think this is the the big reason to prefer plain old JavaScript. Compilation is ok in Java etc. where you can still debug your Java-code. But with many of the

• guipsp 7y ago
  >But with many of these JavaScript frameworks I don't think that is possible, is it? It is, and works pretty much out of the box nowadays
• DonHopkins 7y ago
  >I would add that "debugger" is not mostly a tool for finding and fixing bugs. It is tool for code-understanding, giving you a "live view" of your code, for READING your (or someone else's) code in the order it executes. Absolutely! I couldn't agree more. From the discussion about forking sub-processes from the shell: The compiler/assembler/disassembler/debugger should be built into the shell, just like ITS DDT at the MIT-AI Lab in 1969! ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_Syste... https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6153 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6153 https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/info/ddt.33 https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/info/ddt.33 https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/_info_/ddtord.1462 https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/_info_/ddtord.... https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/debugging.md https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/debugging.md